Trying to emerge system and receive a masked package error Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -v sys-libs/glibc 2. emerge system 3. Actual Results: etc # emerge -v sys-libs/glibc Calculating dependencies - !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "sys-libs/timezone-data" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - sys-libs/timezone-data-2005n-r1 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or section 2.2 "Software Availability" in the Gentoo Handbook. !!! (dependency required by "sys-libs/glibc-2.3.5-r3" [ebuild]) Expected Results: glibc should be emerged etc # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (hardened/x86/2.6, gcc-3.4.4-hardenednopie, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium -fforce-addr -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium -fforce-addr -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer -pipe -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://194.117.143.71/mirrors/gentoo http://194.117.143.71 http://194.117.143.72" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa berkdb cdr crypt curl dlloader dvd eds esd fam gdbm gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal hardened howl libwww mad mozilla mysql ncurses nls nptl opengl pam perl pic png python readline samba slang ssl tcpd udev userlocales x86 xml2 zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Not a bug, sys-libs/glibc-2.3.5-r3 is ~arch, as well as sys-libs/timezone-data.
*** Bug 110893 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***